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turkeyhunter
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# Posted: 16 May 2011 11:15am - Edited by: turkeyhunter
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on my trip a couple weeks ago, i made a few pic's of vintage small cabins along my journey---
1st one was a small one room cabin, in a beautiful cotton wood river bottom
this one located "south dakota"
thought it would be FUN for us to post pic's of out favorite small cabins we see along the way......
please post your pic's as well
inside view
we got inside this one during a brief snow/sleet WIND STORM, while we were turkey hunting......found a few treasures inside.
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turkeyhunter
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# Posted: 16 May 2011 11:37am
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saw this one is MO
near the Current River
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turkeyhunter
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# Posted: 16 May 2011 11:42am - Edited by: turkeyhunter
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this cabin on the banks of the Big Horn River in Montana
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hattie
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# Posted: 16 May 2011 01:27pm - Edited by: hattie
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Thanks for sharing Turkeyhunter. I especially like that second one.
Here are some of ours.....
The man who lived in the prospector's cabin (2nd photo) won the Irish Sweepstakes. He moved to Vancouver and died an alcoholic in a hotel room there.
Our friend's grandfather used to live here.
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A prospector's cabin two streets over from us.
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hattie
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# Posted: 16 May 2011 01:30pm
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And two more....
"Nine Mile Bert", an alcoholic, used to live here. They found him dead in his cabin one spring.
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The last of the "Seven Sisters". There used to be 7 identical cabins at the edge of our town.
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turkeyhunter
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# Posted: 16 May 2011 02:49pm
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Quoting: hattie Here are some of ours.....
Hattie those are great!!!!!
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TomChum
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# Posted: 18 May 2011 01:08am - Edited by: TomChum
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I stayed at this miner's cabin, in the Panamint Valley (near Death Valley, California) on a trip in March, 2010. It's called "Osborne Cabin".
It's user-maintained and there is no charge, and can't be reserved. If you arrive and it;s empty then you get to stay in it. There are several of these in the area. It had books on the shelf, and canned goods in the kitchen. And a Cabin journal on the table. This cabin was 12x16, but it had a tiny added on bedroom about 6X10. I never saw anyone during my stay. It stormed ferociously that night, super windy and lightning, it was incredible sitting in that little stone house so far out in the desert.
I couldn't stay another day but didn't really want to leave either. So I puttered around looking for a project, or something to fix, but had no tools. I did find a wide push-broom, so I drug that pushbroom over the entire (sandy) grounds, obliterating every footprint and tire track. So the next person who arrived might think nobody had been there in months. This was my contribution to the next person, and as I did not want to leave, it allowed me to prolong my departure.
Osborne cabin, Panamint Valley, California.
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Osborne cabin,inside
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Timberjack
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# Posted: 18 May 2011 08:06am
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Great topic!
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Gary O
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# Posted: 18 May 2011 06:46pm
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Guess it all started here for me (according to the folks)
A little forest service cabin near ZigZag a few miles from Mt Hood. A getaway Dad and Mom frequented back in '48.
Talk about vintage......
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Timberjack
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# Posted: 19 May 2011 07:56am
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Here's another:
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cabingal3
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# Posted: 21 May 2011 11:01pm
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heres an oldie but has some interesting building ideas!
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mrmiji
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# Posted: 22 May 2011 12:58am - Edited by: mrmiji
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I think some of the neatest small cabins are at Roche Harbor on the San Juans, WA. The cottages you can still rent are a charming piece of history.
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turkeyhunter
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# Posted: 22 May 2011 02:04pm
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neat CABIN pic's everyone!!!!! keep them coming!!!!
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Malamute
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# Posted: 4 Sep 2011 10:46pm - Edited by: Malamute
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Here's a couple old ones in the mountains of Wy,
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silverwaterlady
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# Posted: 5 Sep 2011 02:06am
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Cabin on Round Island
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hattie
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# Posted: 5 Sep 2011 12:15pm
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I love this thread....There are some really neat old cabins here.
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bugs
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# Posted: 6 Sep 2011 05:55pm - Edited by: bugs
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Err couple pix near and dear to my heart.
Great grand parent's tar paper shack circa 1910 and my grand parent's house circa 1930. These are scans of negatives of the same vintage. Just love old negatives.
And a pic of an old poplar log barn. (Yes poplar does last!!) Likely about 65 years old in the pic. One of my first memories is of my dad milking cows in that barn... complete with a circle of cats waiting for a squirt from the teat.
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Grand parents house
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hattie
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# Posted: 6 Sep 2011 09:01pm
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bugs - I love the chickens out front of the tar paper shack and also the window boxes on the shelves.
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exsailor
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# Posted: 7 Sep 2011 02:55pm
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Turkey Hunter,
I am surprised he cabin on the banks of the Big Horn River in Montana has survived all these years. I would have thought flood waters would have taken it. The banks don't look that tall. Still it is nice being that close to the water. It looks like a nice site, no shade that I can see though. Fresh fish when ever you can get them to bite, not a bad way to live.
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TomChum
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# Posted: 19 Sep 2011 10:10pm - Edited by: TomChum
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Just got back from 12 days motorcycle ride across Utah. I saw more sad little abandoned cabins than I could count.
sad little cabin, Nine-mile canyon, Utah
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hattie
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# Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:10am
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We were out grouse hunting today and came upon this old prospector's cabin. Looks like it is still used today - probably by the people who own the placer claim it is on. It was really neat. Had an outdoor bathtub and a wood stove to heat the water in the outdoor shower and tub. There is also a spring on the property.
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peeking in the windows
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Nice yard
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TomChum
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# Posted: 24 Sep 2012 02:11am
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wow, I LIKE it!
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Sustainusfarm
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# Posted: 25 Sep 2012 12:53am
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These are a few shots from last weekend at my favorite place... Old World Wisconsin outdoor museum!!
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tsvoyager
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# Posted: 14 Oct 2012 11:06am
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There was a place in VA, (1980) abandent for ages, that we use to walk past on the way to a friends home. It was a grand old home out in the middle of no where. I wish now I had taken pictures of it. It was showing signs of decay back then so I'm sure it's just a pile now.
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neb
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# Posted: 14 Oct 2012 03:59pm - Edited by: neb
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Here is an old tar paper shack on my land. I will take a picture sometime of one that is less then a mile from here and is made out of cottonwood logs. Like I said before I wish this old cabin could talk. Great post!!!
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dstraate
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# Posted: 15 Oct 2012 03:25pm
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Love it.
The larger our houses get, the further we become detached from the items that make it a home. I feel at home in the cabin.
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bobbotron
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# Posted: 15 Oct 2012 03:28pm
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This is an old maple syrup shack in the woods near my parent's place. It's a really neat old shack, it's a shame the farmer doesn't use it any more. I really dig the huge cupola on top, when I make my welding shack it's going to be
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adakseabee
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# Posted: 15 Oct 2012 09:18pm
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Sometime in the 60s or early 70s, my folks built a cabin in the woods back behind the cow pasture to expand their VW camper. Dad was recycler before recyling became cool. As a carpenter, he was always hauling home old doors and windows from his remodeling projects. With his barn full of those old doors and windows looking for a second lease in life, he used some of them in the construction of the walls of the cabin. The roof is tin. All of the construction materials were salvaged items. The floor is pretty rotten now as vandals broke most of the windows allowing the weather inside. There is an old cast iron stove with porcelin sides that they used for cokking and heating that is still there. Someday, I plan on hauling it out of there to see if it is worth restoring to use in my cabin.
My Folks' Cabin and the VW
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TomChum
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# Posted: 20 Dec 2012 10:51am - Edited by: TomChum
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Here is a pic of the cabin built by my great-great grandfather, who came across the US in a covered wagon, in the 1860s. I don't know when the cabin was built. They settled near the Snake river, in Washington near the Idaho border. This photo is probably 60 years old. By the time I saw it, in the mid-70s, it was a little worse condition than this pic. The current residents on the original homestead (who are descendants too) got tired of mowing around it and burned it about 10 years ago. 
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hattie
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# Posted: 20 Dec 2012 12:05pm
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That's sad that it was burned down 10 years ago. I guess most look at these old buildings as "junk" and just "problems", but I look at them as a challenge. *LOL*
Our own place was a disaster when we bought it. Even the front wall had become detached from the house and when you closed the front door, the whole wall moved. A whole lot of TLC later and we are living in it. It was built in 1912 and I love its character. Most can't figure out how we live in such a small place year round, but I think society today as been brainwashed to think "bigger is better".
In one of the earlier photos I posted of "9 Mile Bert's Cabin" I must update that it was torn down this past summer. The coal mine in the area decided to bulldoze it (even though it wasn't on their property). Very sad indeed!!!
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